{"id":12429,"date":"2011-03-03T04:29:08","date_gmt":"2011-03-03T04:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=12429"},"modified":"2014-09-08T15:58:07","modified_gmt":"2014-09-08T15:58:07","slug":"doorway-arts-ensemble-and-arts-alive-theatre-present-%e2%80%9ctether%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=12429","title":{"rendered":"Doorway Arts Ensemble and Arts Alive Theatre present: \u201cTether\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Doorway Arts Ensemble and Arts Alive Theatre present: \u201cTether\u201d<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Doorway Arts Ensemble<\/a><\/strong>
\nFebruary 2011<\/p>\n

Emily Morrison<\/a><\/strong>, Publicist
\nOffice: 703-892-0801<\/p>\n

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sex, race, religion, tether ball\u2026 twin sisters are coming of age [2011-02-18 through 2011-03-13]<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bethesda, Maryland<\/strong> Doorway Arts Ensemble presents Tether<\/a><\/em>, a World Premier play by Julie Taiwo Oni, co-produced with Arts Alive Theatre Artistic Director, Perry Schwartz as part of Montgomery College<\/a> Silver Spring Arts Alive Theatre Series. This production marks the first presentation by a professional theater organization of a script that received development and a stage reading as part of the 2009 Inkwell\u2019s Inkubator<\/a> Festival in Washington, DC.<\/p>\n

In Tether<\/em>, Lach and Lam are 15 year old mixed race twins. Lach is white, Lam is black and both are obsessed with tether-ball<\/a>. In this rhythmic drama, life is a back-and-forth game of rules and regulations, kissing boys, movie-talk and the roots of their religious upbringing. As the sisters come into their maturity and men enter the game, they must learn to tether without their counterpart. When an obstacle swings between them, they must begin to face and embrace the differences between each other in order to be true to themselves<\/p>\n

The odds against of a couple having twins of dramatically different color are a million to one, each twin fertilized by different sperm with different genetic input from their parents. The phenomenon is extremely rare\u2026 there are only about 5 sets of mixed race twins living in the world today.<\/p>\n

Runs February 18 through March 13, 2011.
\n<\/strong>Performances: Thursday-Saturday at 8pm and Sunday Matinee at 2pm
\nMonday, March 7 at 8 PM – Special Performance<\/p>\n

Friday Feb 18<\/strong> – Press Night – followed by reception (press are welcome to all performances)
\nSaturday Feb 19<\/strong> \u2013 Q&A follows performance featuring the dramaturg, director, playwright and actors<\/p>\n

TICKETS<\/strong>: $10 for general admission\/$7 for students and seniors\/$5 for MC Students, Faculty and Staff. Call 240-567-5775 or order online at www.tickets.com<\/a>. All performances opening weekend are Pay What You Can.<\/p>\n

LOCATION<\/strong>: The Studio Theater in the Cultural Art Center<\/a> at Montgomery College Silver Spring 7995 Georgia Avenue Silver Spring, MD 20910 [map\u00a0& directions<\/a>]…<\/p>\n

For more information, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Doorway Arts Ensemble and Arts Alive Theatre present: \u201cTether\u201d Doorway Arts Ensemble February 2011 Emily Morrison, Publicist Office: 703-892-0801 sex, race, religion, tether ball\u2026 twin sisters are coming of age [2011-02-18 through 2011-03-13] Bethesda, Maryland Doorway Arts Ensemble presents Tether, a World Premier play by Julie Taiwo Oni, co-produced with Arts Alive Theatre Artistic Director, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,13,8,20],"tags":[5569,5570,5571,5575,5572],"class_list":["post-12429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-liveevents","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-doorway-arts-ensemble","tag-emily-morrison","tag-julie-taiwo-oni","tag-montgomery-college","tag-tether"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}